Senior Functional Safety Engineer

Job Title:
Senior Functional Safety Engineer

Location :
Detroit, MI

Tata Technologies is seeking a Senior. Functional Safety Engineer: this position requires experienced professionals with hands-on experience in functional safety engineering in the context of ISO 26262 at an OEM or Tier 1.

Job Description:

Drive the development of functional safety system requirements and functional decomposition for automotive systems.

• Actively contributes to the definition and/or confirmation of the architecture in the vehicle from the perspective of functional safety.
• Define the functional safety concept for the system, hardware, and software according to ISO 26262 standards.
• Collaborate with hardware, software, design, and validation engineers to ensure design meets safety requirements.
• Contribute to the decision making at various levels of management driven by systems knowledge and develop detailed requirements.
• Work with cross-functional teams to develop hazard analysis and safety concept
• Support functional safety validation tests.
• Work closely with internal teams and suppliers to define functional safety interfaces between project partners. Generate DIAs and other necessary functional safety information for supplier systems/components.
• Help implement and master functional safety processes and tools to ensure vehicles provide world-class safety.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science or a related field.
• 5+ years of experience as a Functional Safety Engineer working at an OEM or Tier I supplier
• Experience working in an Agile development environment and using related tools
• Knowledge of CMMI and Aspice and their role in delivering a quality product
• Experience developing and delivering embedded system hardware and/or software
• Knowledge of vehicle embedded systems and functions in vehicles.
• Knowledge of automotive product development process and the V-Model system development, verification, and validation framework.
• Knowledge of ISO 26262 and experience developing and delivering the major work products of a functional safety program.
• Experience supporting external/third-party reviews of functional safety work products.
• Understanding of the product safety responsibility share between supplier and OEM.
• Experience with functional safety tools (e.g. Medini, APIS IQ) and requirements management tools (e.g. Jama).